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  • Title: Jack Juggler (Quarto 1)
  • Editor: David Swain
  • Textual editor: Dr. Sarah Neville
  • Coordinating editor: Brett Greatley-Hirsch

    • ISBN: 978-1-55058-490-5

    Copyright David Swain. This text may be freely used for educational, non-profit purposes; for all other uses contact the Editor.
    Author: Anonymous
    Editor: David Swain
    Not Peer Reviewed

    Jack Juggler (Quarto 1)

    30Example proufe her of in erth is well founde
    Manife st open and verie euident
    For except the husband man suffer his ground
    Sum tymes to re st, it woll bere no frute verament
    Therfore the leat the filde lye euerie second yere
    35To the end that aftir re st it may the better corne beare

    Thus than (as I haue sayed) it is a thing naturall
    And naturallie belonging to all liuing creatures
    And vnto man especiallie aboue others all
    To haue at times cõueniẽt, pa staũce, mirthe & pleasurs
    40So they be ioyned Wt hone stie & keape Wt in due mesars
    And the same well allowen not onlye the said Cato
    But also ye Philosophers, Plutarke, Socrates & Plato

    And Cicero Tullius a man sapient and wyse
    Willeth the same in that his fir st boke
    45Which he wrot and entytelid of an hone st mans office
    Who so is disposid therupon to looke
    Wher to define and affirme he boldlie on him tooke
    That to heare Enterluds is pa stime conuenient
    For all maner men, and a thing congruent

    50He rekeneth that namelie as a verie hone st disport
    And a boue all other thinges commendeth ye old cõmedie
    The hearing of which may doo the mynd cumfort
    For they be repleni shed with precepts of Philosophie
    The conteine mutch wisdome & teache prudent pollecie
    55and though thei be al writẽ of mattiers of non ĩportaũce
    yet the shew great wite and mutch pretie conueiaunce

    And in this maner of making Plautus did excell


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